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Load Balancing the Application Tier

Tuning the various Web Agent parameters and following the SiteMinder policy design guidelines may not significantly improve the amount of time it takes the Policy Server to service authentication and authorization requests.

When you have multiple Web Agents and Policy Servers, dynamic load balancing reduces latency and improves throughput because the Web Agents distribute requests among all of the Policy Servers.